Haunted Weekend at the Stanley Hotel
Estes Park, Colorado -- SOLD OUT FOR 2014!
Experience the Ghosts & Haunts of the "Overlook Hotel!"

Haunted Weekend at the Stanley Hotel
333 Wonderview Avenue - Estes Park, Colorado
March 28-30, 2014
Includes Two-Night Lodging at One of America's Most Famous
Haunted Hotels during this American Hauntings Weekend!

Join American Hauntings and Guide Loren Hamilton
for one of our most exciting weekends so far -- a weekend in
Estes Park, Colorado and a two-night stay at the famous Stanley
Hotel, which provided the inspiration for Stephen King's classic
book, "The Shining!" Not only will you experience the ghosts and
hauntings of the hotel with a private, in-house
ghost tour that reveals the many haunts of the Stanley, but
we'll also be experiencing many of the history and hauntings of
Estes Park as well! This is going to be one of our most exciting
weekend events and spaces will be very limited -- so if you
think you want to go, don't hesitate to get signed up!

The Stanley Hotel:
Known as one of the most famous haunted hotels in America, the
Stanley in Estes Park gains much of its infamy as the hotel that
inspired Stephen King to write "The Shining" in the early 1970s.
But the hotel has plenty of real-life haunts of its own.

The Stanley was built in 1909 by Freelan Stanley, the co-creator
of the Stanley automobile. Suffering from tuberculosis, he came
to Estes Park for his health in the summer of 1903 and stayed in
a local cabin with his wife, Flora. The couple fell in love with
the area and when Stanley's health improved, he decided to
invest his automotive fortune in the area. He opened the Stanley
Hotel a few years later. The hotel took more than two years to
complete, all built from natural wood and stone from the area.
Equipped with running water, electricity and telephones, the
only amenity that the hotel lacked was heat since it was
designed as a summer resort. (Needless to say, heat has since
been added, so guests don't need to worry!). The hotel opened on
July 4 and catered to the rich and famous, including
"Unsinkable" Molly Brown, John Phillip Sousa, Theodore
Roosevelt, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and a host of
Hollywood celebrities. Although it enjoyed fame among wealthy
tourists for many years, its greatest notoriety arrived when it
became the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's
"The Shining."

In the early 1970s, King and his wife, Tabitha, spent the night
at the hotel thanks to bad weather. He had been working on a
book idea about a family trapped at a haunted amusement park,
but it had stalled out. Then one day he saw a sign in the
mountains that warned of roads becoming impassable after October
because of snow. The story of "The Shining" was moved to the
"Overlook Hotel" after King checked into the Stanley just as it
was closing down for the season. The empty hallways and deserted
guest areas inspired him to write about a man that goes mad
after agreeing to serve as caretaker of the haunted hotel for
the winter.

But the Stanley Hotel is not only
haunted in Stephen King's book -- it has ghost stories of its
own. There have been a number of reported hauntings, especially
in the ballroom. Many have heard the sounds of a party going on
when no one is present and the sound of the piano playing on its
own. Ghosts have been reported in the guest rooms, in the
corridors and just about everywhere else in the hotel.

In 1997, ABC Television remade Stephen King's "The Shining" as a
mini-series and unlike the earlier Stanley Kubrick film (which
King hated), the new film was made on location at the Stanley.
During the filming, the cast and crew got a taste of the ghostly
activity. Many of them were very unsettled by the strange events
-- as guests will hear during the ghost tours of the hotel.

We hope that you'll join American
Hauntings for this amazing weekend event -- where the Stanley
Hotel will be just a part of the experience! In addition to our
lodging and events at the hotel, we'll also get a taste of other
Estes Park history and hauntings, including the Estes Park
Museum and the Historic (and Haunted) Park Theater! We'll be
adding to the itinerary as the winter goes on --
This is a haunted weekend that you don't want to miss!